Quotes & Sayings About Never Forgetting Your Roots

I avoid the looming visitor,
Flee him adroitly around corners,
Hating him, wishing him well;

Lest if he confront me I be forced to say what is in no wise true:
That he is welcome; that I am unoccupied;
And forced to sit while the potted roses wilt in the crate or the sonnet cools

Bending a respectful nose above such dried philosophies
As have hung in wreaths from the rafters of my house since I was a child.

Some trace of kindliness in this, no doubt,
There may be.
But not enough to keep a bird alive.

There is a flaw amounting to a fissure
In such behaviour. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Maslow's five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothing has seized them, nothing has caught them, nothing has driven them spiritually mad and made them worth talking to. — Joseph Campbell

Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual. — Tom Ford

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety. — Saadi

You cannot pray them out of hell. — Bill Murray

The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget ... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down. — Lionel Murphy

It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls. — Carl Sagan

Dissociative parts of the personality are not actually separate identities or personalities in one body, but rather parts of a single individual that are not yet functioning together in a smooth, coordinated, flexible way. P14 — Suzette Boon

What would an A in your twenties even mean?" I wondered out aloud. "I don't know. That's the problem. I just feel like I shouldn't be less-than. — Meg Jay

Sometimes it is the ones we love the most are what we value the most. — Angela Brown

Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me. — Heidi W. Durrow

I think Salesforce, going public very early on before they were profitable, it made a lot of sense for them because it got customers comfortable that these guys were going to have capital and be transparent about their business. — Dave Goldberg

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail — Aristotle.